Philip Newton writes: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 09:08, Matthew King<[email protected]> wrote: > > > Metadata like the HTTP Content-Type header? > > Yes, like that. > > You'll note that many web pages -- especially static ones -- still end > in .htm or .html despite the Content-Type header.
Surely not "despite": the web server somehow has to determine which Content-Type: header to serve for a given file, and often the way it does this is ... from the extension. So this is still a case of depending on extensions, merely indirectly. Smylers
